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David Botstein
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“There is something about teaching that makes you a better researcher. I know this is very countercultural wisdom, but I believed it all along. , , and all believed it. Levinthal and Luria both had a very strong influence on me in this regard.”
David Botstein (1942–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... the principles and practices are: Focus on the important ideas and do them well. Teach every idea from the viewpoint of the technology of today. And never go out of the way to teach from history and never go for coverage. What we want is skill and not coverage and breadth. The students are enrolled by self-selection.”
David Botstein (1942–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our capacity to do is growing by leaps and bounds, although, our capacity to interpret sequence is lagging behind. And it is one of the reasons that I went to Princeton, to try to rearrange a curriculum so that s will know more statistics and more mathematics, and more of the, sort of, hard science that is required to make sense out of some of the things that the genome is telling us.”
David Botstein (1942–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source